"History of two cities" is one of Dickens's best-known novels. The story takes place between two cities, London and Paris, during the time of the French Revolution.

The first city symbolizes peace, the second the agitation, the challenge and the chaos, the conflict between two worlds in an era in which drastic social changes are announced.

Dickens's indifference to politics and his contempt for politicians push the novel away from any political or philosophical debate about the revolution. However, by suppressing such debates around revolutionary events, Dickens gives the French masses a role, autonomy and historical activity that they did not have, also presenting the revolution as a just punishment to the aristocracy for centuries of exploitation and abuse of the village.